I visited my doctor this week and was totally shocked by what I found out. After thinking about it for awhile, I decided that I can’t be the only one out there! So I decided to share my journey with everyone in hopes of helping someone else.
To make a long story short…I’ve lost 70 lbs over the course of 1.5 years and I feel great now. I have a very busy life and I couldn’t imagine doing it with the weight on. How I got to 70+ lbs was a result of an illness that finally came to an end about 5 years ago. But what didn’t leave was the weight I had gained due to being sick and the medication.
Fast forward to my second pregnancy and a horrible case of Hyperemesis and my 30th approaching. So I decided that I was going to turn 30 looking and feeling my best. At the same time I had a friend who went gluten free and started telling me about it. I noticed I had a lot of the same symptoms and decided to go gluten free for 3 months. It was during that time that I really paid attention to what I was eating searching for gluten and I stopped eating out. Well I started getting really healthy and since I’ve lost 70 lbs since the birth of second son, and 90 lbs since the peek of my weight gain. I want to point out that I didn’t lose weight because I went gluten free. I lost it because I drastically changed my eating habits and paid a lot of attention to every little thing I ate.
Anyways I figured with a very healthy BMI, and feeling great I was set. I decided to contact my doctor to do double check since I had hit the big 3-0. I was sure that my once high cholesterol was down at a healthy level and I was good to go with a healthy long life. But I was wrong. My cholesterol was at an astonishing 156!
I couldn’t believe it! For someone who doesn’t eat bad, is active, and limits my red meat intake I was blown away! Now that being said, I HATE medication. So I asked my doctor what I needed to do to manage it without the pills and she said I need to lose another 10-12 lbs. The problem is I can’t imagine eating any healthier (minus my obsession with dark chocolate), and I’m pretty active, and don’t have much time to really hit the gym.
I was telling a friend of mine who recently lost 60 lbs. about my cholesterol and we talked about her system and how it’s been known to drop cholesterol levels and it’s easy to do for someone as busy as me. So I decided to take her 90 day challenge (she’s got another 10 to drop too) and share the experience with you!
I hope you’ll join me in my journey to get healthy once and for all! I’ll occasionally blog how it’s going on our health and beauty section and I opened a topic under the discussions section just in case you have any questions. In 90 days I’ll tell you what my cholesterol is at and how much more weight I’ve lost. They say heart disease is the number killer of women–and I refuse to be a statistic.
You didn’t say what “her system” is…
…my problem has always been lack of discipline. I’ve set my mind to many things and accomplished them. Unfortunately, for some reason, weight loss is not one of them. I do not know why I sabotage my attempts every time. I have good intentions, I tell myself, but always fall off the wagon. Cost is critical for me; being on only one income lately has us strapped financially. Time is at a premium being that I work full time at work, and then full time at home on private venture. I don’t exercise because I physically am unable (currently under doctors card for feet, knee, back, and neck issues). I am looking for a “Bewitched” moment where I can twinkle my nose and be 50 lbs lighter. this time last year I was ill and ate nothing but bananas, rice, applesauce, and toast, and lost about 15 lbs, but that can’t be a healthy approach (it certainly was easy!). I’ve considered a program offered by my doctor, but it involves shots… At my age, sometimes I think I’m just set to die an old fat woman. I take pills for high blood pressure and high cholesterol… but… I know that’s not enough. Sigh. I wish you luck, Hasti… keep us posted….
I totally understand where you are coming from Anne! I could never do anything with shots, as I said I’m totally scared of meds and shots top the list. It makes me sad that you don’t feel great. If you want I can have my friend list her contact info on here I know a lot of people on the program are getting it for free and loosing tons of weight. Might be worth looking into.
I also haven’t exercised up to now because of pain, but I ordered a Richard Simmons video…fjaldfjalkdgjalksjfalgjd;lsfjalgjlkj!!!
Good for you for looking into your health further even though you look great and feel great! Often people think they are fine if they are thin. My father-in-law weighs a mere 150 and has high cholesterol and now diabetes. I am 60 lbs overweight and have perfect blood pressure and cholesterol (I often think this surprises nurses when I go to the Dr.). My goal this year is to make myself a priority because I care for myself and my family and friends…I know they want me to be happy and healthy. So, I am actually eating MORE (1800 calories/day) which is often very hard believe it or not. My husband got me an itouch for my birthday (right around new years) and I am using the Livestrong app to track my caloric intake. I’ve dropped 6 lbs in 3 weeks!
I will be following your journey!
That’s fantastic! I can’t tell you how shocked I was at the results. You would think loosing almost 90 lbs would make me healthy! I’m excited to share my journey and I hope it helps other people get healthy and think long term about health.